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Giacomo Carissimi: Quick Facts

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Baptized April 18, 1605
Died January 12, 1674 • Rome • Italy
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
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Alessandro Stradella
Italian composer
Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
César Franck, detail of a portrait by J. Rongier; in a private collection.
César Franck
Belgian-French composer
Elgar, Sir Edward
Sir Edward Elgar
English composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with a serious expression and a brick wall in the background.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
Mendelssohn, Fanny
Fanny Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
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Peter Benoit
Belgian composer
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Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen
British conductor and composer
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
German composer
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Campbell
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
British composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer
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Antonio Sacchini
Italian composer
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Barbara Strozzi
Italian singer and composer
Alessandro Scarlatti, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1692; in the Palacio del Duque de Hijar, Epila, Spain
Alessandro Scarlatti
Italian composer

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